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Barnes, Djuna - joonˈə, 1892–1982, American author, b. Cornwall, N.Y. She is best known for her modernist novel Nightwood (1936), which, in its sense of horror and decay, was likened by T. S. Eliot, who edited the book, to an Elizabethan tragedy. Barnes also wrote several one-act plays produced by the Provincetown Players from 1919 to 1920. Her other works include Ryder


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    Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss » Read Now

    by Carolyn Allen. 142 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Following Djuna reads contemporary novelists in the tradition of Djuna Barnes, arguing for the importance of women's fiction in understanding women's erotics - emotional and sexual exchanges between women. Barnes's Nightwood, with its experimental form and passionate language, has made its mark on...
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    Gothic Modernisms (Chap. 5 "Strolling in the Dark: Gothic Flanerie in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood") » Read Now

    by Andrew Smith, Jeff Wallace. 232 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This is the first full-length exploration of the relationship between Gothic fiction and Modernism in fiction and film. The Gothic's fascination with images of the fragmented self is echoed in the Modernist concern with the psyche and the paranoia of the everyday. The contributors explore how the...
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    Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque (Chap. 8 "Abjection and the Carnivalesque: Transgression in Nightwood and Nights at the Circus") » Read Now

    by M. Keith Booker. 296 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Company. Quotations from Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, copyright 1937 by Djuna Barnes, reprinted by permission of New Directions...they come to the fore in my final essay on...
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    Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers (Chap. 5 "'Dropping Crooked into Rhyme:' Djuna Barnes' Use of Form and the Liminal Space of Gender") » Read Now

    by Mary E. Galvin. 144 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A full-length exploration of the relation between poetics and queer theory, Queer Poetics presents a theoretical framework that can illuminate not only the ways we read the specific poetic innovations of the six major writers in this study, but also the ways we read literary modernism itself, by...
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    Djuna Barnes and T. S. Eliot: The Politics and Poetics of Nightwood, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now

    by Georgette Fleischer. 34 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...DJUNA BARNES AND T. S. ELIOT: THE POLITICS AND POETICS...history of Nightwood is an embattled one. Djuna Barnes began the novel emerging from a nine-year...a week after her...
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    American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960, Vol. 1 ("Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)" begins on p. 1) » Read Now

    by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Part of an ongoing series covering the texts and lives of the most important women writers of English, this book contains introductory essays by Harold Bloom and provides biographical information, a wide selection of critical excerpts, and complete bibliographies of 11 authors.
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    Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 ("'Soiled! Despoiled! Handled! Mauled! Rumpled! Rummaged! Ransacked!': Styles and Hyperboles of Seduction, Rape, and Incest in Djuna Barnes's Ryder" begins on p. 77) » Read Now

    by Sabine Sielke. 241 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from...
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    A Book of Repulsive Jews?: Rereading 'Nightwood,' in The Review of Contemporary Fiction » Read Now

    by Meryl Altman. 12 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...In some fifteen years of pushing Djuna Barness novel Nightwood at people, I have...about modernism. NOTES (1) Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (New York: New Directions...Silence...
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    "Well of Course, I Used to Be Absolutely Gorgeous Dear": The Female Interviewer as Subject/Object in Djuna Barnes's Journalism, in Criticism » Read Now

    by Nancy Bombaci. 29 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barness journalism by Nancy Bombaci The...disease to the shapes of modern sculpture. Djuna Barnes, 1962 letter (1) DJUNA...
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    `Elementary, My Dear Djuna': Unreadable Simplicity in Barnes's Creatures in an Alphabet, in Critical Survey » Read Now

    by Daniela Caselli. 25 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Patchin Place, the caped and cloched Djuna Barnes cut a striking figure in Paris...powerfully intelligent one. (1) Djuna Barnes is the attractive, mysterious...really, to a...
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    Faith of a (Woman) Writer (Discussion of Djuna Barnes begins on p. 71) » Read Now

    by Alice Kessler-Harris, William McBrien. 358 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Reflecting the salient undercurrents of contemporary researh on women writers, this volume is an appraisal of the work of the writer as woman and presents critics' perceptions about how women writers have dealt with the complexity of changing female visions in the 20th century. Each of the 34...
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    American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)" begins on p. 20) » Read Now

    by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a...

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